Welsh Full Fibre Broadband ISP Ogi Confirms Departure of Current CEO UPDATE
Infracapital-backed UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (110,000 RFS premises passed by end of 2024), has today announced the departure of their current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founding member, Ben Allwright, after 5 years in the post.
Ben said he was “immensely proud of what we have achieved at Ogi” and spoke of how he was now “excited to explore new challenges and contribute to the industry in different ways, while staying firmly embedded in the vibrant community that defines the sector.” The baton will now be picked up by colleague and co-founder, Sally-Anne Skinner, who currently holds the position of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Ogi.
Sally-Anne first joined Ogi in 2020 as CRO and over the past five years she has played a leading role in shaping the business’s commercial strategy. This has included designing and delivering the go-to-market strategy across all channels, launching digital e-commerce and self-serve platforms, and taking on CMO responsibilities to integrate brand, communications and acquisition marketing.
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Sally-Anne will initially be taking on the CEO role in an interim capacity, but the plan is for her to become the permanent CEO.
Sally-Anne said:
“Having spent the last five years helping to shape and drive Ogi’s success as CRO, I am excited and energised to step into my new role. I look forward to leading the next phase of our journey, with a clear focus on accelerating growth and delivering strong financial performance, whilst keeping customer centricity at the heart of our strategy.”
The move comes just ahead of when Ogi are normally due to publish their annual accounts, which will be interesting to watch as we haven’t had many updates on their future network coverage plans or customer take-up levels this year.
UPDATE 20th Sept 2025
Ogi informs that while Sally-Anne will initially be the provider’s “interim” CEO, the plan is for her to take on the role in a permanent capacity.
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Do you reckon Ben was all wright with this change?
He wasn’t a founder at all. Typical corporate fat cat brought in and wasted £150M investment. They have hardly built any network, burned through the cash so quickly. Just like so many of the other Altnets. Then blame inflation etc etc. People predicted the bubble would burst but it was helped a lot by rubbish CEO’s.
He’s just the same as James Lowther CEO at Truespeed, let the company burn through 100m in less than 18 months, laid hundreds off and then blamed investors for not wanting to invest!! Then 6 months later he started to tell staff that the ‘investment was coming’ in numerous staff meetings for nearly a year (false promises). Then guess what, no investment was forthcoming and they laid even more staff off.
Likely for Sheeron Shierce to take over
Who wants to bet the results will show it’s been a bad year?
The only thing missing from this announcement is that he left for personal reasons.
Why are Ogi, and the other Infra backed altnts, not merging? 1m+ prems passed and 250k+ customers?
245 mil, 20k customers, 57 years to break even, what a CEO.
From their last accounts on companies house ending Dec2024 they lost nearly £33M in that year yet the highest paid director (I assume the CEO) was paid £301,000, the previous year it was £326,000.
Now just in case anyone is looking for a CEO I would like to put my CV forward. I will only lose you £25M a year and charge £200K for my services. But happy to have a bonus clause to say if I lose you more I will get a bonus
You’re not wrong, unfortunately that’s typical of most of the alt net businesses. CEOs with limited experience outside of very narrow skillets all getting massive pay cheques and bonus payment that are substantially disproportionate to the actual people in their businesses actually making things happen.
Funnily enough when costs need managed, it’s not their bonus or roles that are under scrutiny….
Company name is Spectrum Fibre Ltd, It did indeed make another lose. Turnover was up though but still burning through its borrowings
I wonder what happened to the real Spectrum founder and all the talk of the trunk road fibre. Did it ever happen?